While the resurgence of the coronavirus is becoming more and more urgent in Marseille, the AP-HM hospitals are suffering from a shortage of nurses.

The institution has therefore decided to recruit 100 people, but is struggling to attract CVs.

Looking for nurses, desperately.

This is the distress call launched by the various services of the AP-HM, Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille.

While the resurgence of Covid-19 is hitting the Marseille city hard and the intensive care beds are close to saturation, hospitals are lacking nurses.

The AP-HM site has therefore posted a form online to recruit around a hundred nurses as a matter of urgency.

Because in addition to Covid patients, nurses must also deal with everyone else.

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So this hundred recruitments does not weigh very heavy in the eyes of Valérie, a cardiac surgery nurse.

"It would take at least 600 just for the hospital of Timone!", She judges at the microphone of Europe 1. "From time to time, he [the AP-HM] realizes that it is necessary hire nurses as if they had fallen from the clouds, while it has been shouted for months! ", she adds, referring in particular to the strike movement that lasted several months, before the coronavirus and the emergency of the situation does not come to put a

de facto

end to it.  

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... but difficult recruitment

"Already without the Covid it was overflowing, now the girls are exhausted or disgusted because they can no longer."

Especially since more and more patients are presenting to the hospital in recent days.

About thirty beds were therefore opened to cope, further aggravating the lack of staff already on the knees after the first wave this spring.

"We are in short supply," admits Karen Inthavong, general coordinator of care at AP-HM. 

The situation is such that the latter does not hesitate to make an appeal "to all of France, even abroad" to recruit.